Plattsburgh either… but of course Vermont has almost complete 4G coverage

ApplesNAndroids

No LTE in my hometown. LTE does also not get into our building at work. AT&T seems much better inside our building.

Joe Blow

I think all the ignorant comments here are hilarious. If you barely get signal “your basement, apartment building, middle of nowhere” usually the chances your 4G is going to be good are slim. Consider the area you live in before you flame the coverage. and if you really want a good time try using ATT LTE there… HAHA

We have no Verizon LTE in our Area (Oakhurst/Mariposa, CA) just south of Yosemite National Park.

Joe Blow

I got no 4G in my basement either, or in a bomb shelter. Maybe I should complain… lol

http://www.facebook.com/aarontrevor Aaron Sentell

I’m covered @ UGA (Athens, GA), but I am home for the Summer. There is no 4G LTE in St. Marys, GA.

Jonathan Williams

Gators win this year… Streak ends at 2… LTE in Gainesville and Ocala…

SkylaC90

not to be a dick but this isn’t news, anyone who’s been following along been knew that Verizon’s LTE was currently at 497 markets, 95% done. I was hoping they’d announced the last few cities and that they were beginning to infill with the first of 5,000 cell sites by like july or something.

duke69111

“I was hoping they’d announced the last few cities and that they were beginning to infill with the first of 5,000 cell sites by like july or something.”

That would of been great news. A lot of the areas in Kansas outside the cities with a population of 10,000+ have yet to see 4G.

SkylaC90

I currently live in New York and coverage is so-so at best and spotty as hell at worst. I blame it on my gnex lol, but yeah seriously idk I’ve just been checking Verizon’s site and searching for any news I can about there network and have been learning a lot. Verizon is partnering with smaller carriers so hopefully you’ll have it soon, say within the next 2 months.

duke69111

That’s good to hear. US Cellular is very strong in the aforementioned area, so maybe they will team up with them as they roll out their 4G.

Ian

Sometimes we get news. Other times commentary, opinion, polls, reviews, or general updates.

p.s. I haven’t been following along so I didn’t know.

SkylaC90

I’m a news addict and honestly, if I didn’t have my gnex and was on Verizon. I highly doubt i’d be interested at all lol but because of it’s terrible signal, i’ve been on Verizons @$$ about their network improvements and then the tech that goes into it and so on and so forth.

Diablo81588

You should get rid of your gnex. Problem solved.

SkylaC90

I can’t yet, still waiting for the 32gb/64gb version of the Galaxy S4 on Verizon.

Liderc

Maybe you should start a website, then you can dictate what is considered “news.”

SkylaC90

Maybe you should go jerk off F off and come back when your feeling better.

MKader17

What is with the surge of “news” haters been about lately? Is it the newest form of trolling or something?

SkylaC90

not yet but hopefully;)

Zach Armstrong

I have 4G in my town but with the crappy GNEX radio it always drop to 3G no matter where I go

I constantly have to toggle my data to get anything, then again after a couple of minutes. I think it’s because I have unlimited data also.

CivilDroid

I constantly experience terrible speeds with 4G and I have unlimited as well. Hmmmmm….suspicious

Big EZ

I think this is their way of forcing us onto their shared plans. Hate to break it to them, but the main reason I don’t leave to T-Mobile or AT&T is because I don’t want to lose my Unlimited data. Once I lose it I’m seeing if another carriers service is decent in my area. I hate to give up Verizon’s coverage but it’s so expensive and my bill would double (currently around $220 a month) with the shared plan. I use anywhere from 8-16 gb a month and my wife uses 3-5 gb.

coolsilver

With T-Mobile I found it is about the same price (as discounted Verizon plan) for one the Un-carrier unlimited plans with unlimited 4G addon. This is for my individual phone though. I can see multiple lines this might not be as cheap.

Big EZ

Yeah, but if I lose unlimited data my bill would be over $400 a month for two smart phones and one basic phone.

Trevor

^^^
This times 10^6.

sc4fpse

Verizon GNex-er reporting in. This is exactly how I feel. I want Motorola radios more than I want sex right now.

Zach Armstrong

I want a Motorola Device that’s not a Droid branded device Motorola radios are the best in the business, Also what’s sad is when the HTC Thunderbolt has a better radio then the GNEX

coolsilver

Thunderbolt radio is pretty beasty.

Big EZ

It was good, but Motorola are a little better. Samsung normally has crap radios but I got lucky with the Note 2. The thunderbolt is the reason I stay away from HTC.

Zach Armstrong

For a first gen LTE radio That’s pretty impressive

Nathan D

Motorola majorly screwed up WiFi when they upgraded the Razrs to Jelly Bean. It drops all the time.

nate

I think I’m the only one who can get a 4G signal with a gnex.

lukemcninch325

I just got paid $6784 working off my laptop this month. And if you think that’s cool, my divorced friend has twin toddlers and made over $9k her first month. It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less. This is what I do, http://www.ownjobs1.com

Daniel Aceves

Lots of Places here in AZ without 4G. Maybe AZ is the whole 5 percent that is not covered

Joe Blow

Where do you live? Skull Valley, AZ??? lol

bakdroid

I think the Latinos are not being covered completely. Time to fire up Viva Movil Cuarta Generación Long Term Evolution!

normmcgarry

Hmmm… 95% of the 3g population is now covered, or 95% area coverage? Most of northern Michigan is still on 3g, that’s for sure.

http://twitter.com/vdefender Taylor A.

3g population. not area

nick

i live in the west bloomfield area and commute to WSU and i get constant 4G LTE but yeah the northern part of Michigan gets spotty service

mqmoon

i still dont get 4G while on BART in San Francisco. Not as bad as the guys here who can’t get it at home, but really annoying still.

errocha81

No go in Eastvale, CA

http://twitter.com/BuddhaForPres Buddha For President

Covered must be a relative term.

“Dude! That pizza is 95% COVERED with mushrooms!”
“Verizon LTE covers 95% of their 3G area!”

In both cases, there is still a lot of cheese.

http://google.com/+derekross Derek Ross

Agreed. There’s very sketchy LTE in rural central PA.

jak_341

I was just going to say this. 3G is sketchy in some remote places.

nate

We’ve got pretty good LTE in rural Iowa. Speeds are often above 20Mbps since there are so few people using it

Ian

Go Clones!

nate

I’ll probably be going to ISU in a year or two so I should try to agree lol.

ddh819

i got really good lte speed in hershey last time i was there

t83

Hershey is far from rural pennsylvania.

ddh819

well, i saw a lot of cows out there

Kyle Wilkins

Sure doesn’t seem that way to me… I use to barely get LTE at my house. Now its a solid 3 bars. Use to get a solid 4 at my girlfriends apt. Now I’m lucky if I get 2 3G bars. Same phone. Same radios. I don’t understand it.

Chris Wedel

I don’t get 4G. It is about 25 miles away from me.

caveat71

Watertown/Fort Drum, NY…AT&T even has it covered (meekly).

snobrdr2324

As soon as Verizon starts selling VoLTE phones only that function as GSM phones have for years, in that I can bring an unlocked international LTE phone to Verizon, I will come back. Unfortunately that seems like distant dream. They aren’t even planning on starting VoLTE until 2014 and LTE only phones are even further off than that because they will have CDMA fallback for a while most likely.

schoat333

The real sad part is, the speeds have gone down so much here in Cleveland that its slower than AT&T or T-Mobiles HSPA networks

Kyle Wilkins

Same way over here in Toledo… Coverage seems to be more spotty than it was as well

Jonathan Williams

Go Rockets!!!

KG

Same here in the DC suburbs.. Used to get 20+mbps consistently. Now I rarely get better than 6mbps

panzerapple

Six megs is a dream my Gnex gets 250 kbps and that is great the gf’s S3 was at 175 kbps 3800 ft from a tower with zero obstructions I can see the antenna. Goodbye big red lte and get screwed by big blue. My N⁴ and her S⁴ pulls 3 to 4 mbps on Hspa + and I only see speeds improving when we get Att lte this summer.

bucwylde23

I’d be happy if they would just give me 3G coverage in all the locations I go. I still have a 20 mile or so strip where I get no coverage at all on the way to work.

http://twitter.com/Muchajared Jared Mucha

There are a LOT of places here in SW PA that are supposed to have 4GLTE but have barely any 3G.. Even though they claim it has 4G.. And not just on my phone, on everyone’s phones!

Tim242

Arkansas

Ronaldo

Nor should it be. Bunch of hillbilly rednecks there. LOOKING DIRECTLY AT YOU TIM242.

Tim242

Nor should what be? Once again, you make no sense.

Ronaldo

SMOOCHES!

Tim242

Where’s that red HTC One for Verizon?

pball_inuyasha

Well I wonder if this means they’ll start doing VOLTE soon. I also wonder how locked down VOLTE phones will be. Since there is so much coverage they could do an LTE only phone. I just want to know if a phone like that comes out, how locked down will it be? If it doesn’t have cdma it’d basically be a gsm phone correct?

chris125

hopefully when it comes out they will be able to use any carrier since cdma will be gone

EraserXIV

I’ll secretly crack a bottle of champagne the day CDMA finally dies.

chris125

I will once the phones can be used on all networks, most likely verizon will do something to prevent that though( like lock the phones down or something) I would love to finally be able to get a true nexus and verizon keep their grubby paws off it and the updates

Carpatus

As I understand it, when Verizon bought the spectrum for their LTE network, the FCC forced them to agree to allow unlocked phones on the spectrum.

chris125

yeah but look how many of their devices aren’t though? Only recently have they been more unlocked and only certain devices are sadly. Hopefully one day they all will and you can get any phone you want, causing verizon to compete on price rather than phone lineup.

Kyle Wilkins

I don’t see VoLTE dropping until 2015 earliest. Once they have “100% coverage” they will boost signals more then VoLTE. I don’t see 3G leaving the scene until 5G comes out in 2020+ I can’t picture a pure LTE phone without having some sort of fallback just in case on VZW.

WesternNY

there is a ton of area not covered by it yet. Drive south on I81 from PA to VA and you are without it more often then you are with it. I can drive 4 miles from my house in western NY and lose it for miles. I have a 50 mile commute to work and i have 4G for 5 of those miles

Charles Hobbs

Agreed. TONS of areas in Virginia are still uncovered, including almost the entire south-western end… 3G but no 4G.

theentropic

It’s spotty where I work and in my home in PA, but for the most part when I’m out I’m covered.

Hector Marquez

Thoroughly impressed with their roll-out. Unfortunately, not enough to make me their customer. I am part of the small group of us who like to tinker with their purchases, that includes my smartphone. I need a carrier that has a great infrastructure and will completely get out of the way of it’s consumer’s. Verizon isn’t it for me.

Good_Ole_Pinocchio

So then who is?

Diablo81588

There isn’t one.

JetRanger

It doesn’t work at my house in Suffolk County NY. I barely get usable 3G there,let alone 4G. Even when I do get 4G out here on Long Island, its slooow at best. Just did a test with a coworkers Nexus 4 on TMobile “H” and my GNex on “4G” and TMobile was faster every time…

chris125

GNEX radios suck so this doesnt surprise me.

T4rd

Unfortunately true. My wife’s Rezound always beat my Gnex in reception and speed tests from the same spot. My Note 2 is significantly better with reception too, not I get 4G in my office building where my Gnex stayed on 3G and 1X before.

Apostrafee

Where in Suffolk?

dsass600

Nassau > Suffolk

Xephik

Fellow Suffolk Long Islander here! Right before I dropped Verizon (fall 2012), I started getting spurts of 4G by the Smith haven mall and also around the intersection of Route 112 and CR 83 (I think they were testing it or something because I only got it during the wee hours of the morning), along with most of the south shore (Up until like halfway between Sunrise and the LIE). I would have thought they finished all of Suffolk by now.

Verizon was fabulous compared to T-Mobile with building penetration, ugh. Although T-Mobile’s HSPA(+ at times) is pretty fast when you’re out in the open or driving, I’ve never had a hiccup using YouTube or Google Music when I’m driving. If only Verizon allowed SIM unlock phones and came slightly down on prices, I’d be all over them again.

mustbepbs

They unceremoniously added my town and few neighboring ones. I’m a happy camper.

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